Showing posts with label discrimination. Show all posts
Showing posts with label discrimination. Show all posts
Thursday, June 19, 2025

Hate crimes in the United States

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 The data graphic on hate crimes below is from the NYT editorial (and dates back to 2023). Antisemitism Is an Urgent Problem. Too Many Peopl...
Friday, February 23, 2024

Directed and semi-directed living donation of kidneys: a current debate in Israel and elsewhere

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  Israel leads the world in per capita living kidney donation. A good part of that comes from the work of Matnat Chaim (gift of life), an or...
Thursday, July 27, 2023

Kidney brouhaha in Israel: is a good deed still good when performed by a shmuck?

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 Recently a three way kidney exchange was performed in Israel. This would have been unremarkable under most circumstances: Israel has an act...
Monday, April 17, 2023

Discriminatory quotas in admissions to universities and graduate schools (and some black humor from my father's generation)

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 History doesn't exactly repeat itself, but it rhymes. (Mark Twain apparently missed the opportunity often attributed to him of saying t...
Friday, March 24, 2023

Alcohol and race in Australia

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 In the U.S. we certainly have a complicated history around both race and alcohol, but in Australia there may be even more complications, as...
Sunday, June 27, 2021

Can same sex couples adopt and foster children in need? It's complicated...

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  When religion and non-discrimination contest with each other in court, the decisions sometimes rely on the details of the case: The WSJ ha...
Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Market design and algorithmic criminal justice--by Jung, Kannan, Lee, Pai, Roth and Vohra

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When fairness isn't your only goal, your other goals may help you choose among competing definitions of fairness. Fair Prediction wit...
Saturday, September 28, 2019

Automatic algorithmic affirmative action, by Ashesh Rambachan and Jonathan Roth

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There's been some justified concern that algorithms that make predictions and choices based on previous choices made by humans might re...
Friday, February 22, 2019

De-biasing academic hiring?

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This is the season when new Ph.D.'s in Economics are hired as assistant professors. More senior professors are hired throughout the yea...
Monday, March 5, 2018

Unrecognized Single-Gender Social Organizations (USGSO) at Harvard

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Harvard has taken steps to express its repugnance to single-gender social organizations. It is motivated primarily by repugnance to male-on...
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Friday, February 3, 2017

Market for ideas vs travel bans: academic societies and universities react

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A large group of scientific societies have signed this Multisociety letter deploring the recent Executive Order regarding travel to the U.S...
Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Global Entry: blanket discrimination replaces "extreme vetting"

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A number of Iranian scientists received messages yesterday from U.S. Customs and Border Protection. These are long-term American resident...
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Wednesday, January 11, 2017

Racial discrimination in Uber and Lyft

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Here's an NBER paper that investigates, in connection with Uber and Lyft, some of the issues that crop up in other distributed decision...
Friday, September 9, 2016

Airbnb consider market design changes to reduce discrimination

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The NY Times has the story: Airbnb Adopts Rules in Effort to Fight Discrimination by Its Hosts "Airbnb, based in San Francisco, sai...
Sunday, June 26, 2016

Airbnb and racial discrimination by hosts

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The NY Times follows the story:  Airbnb Vows to Fight Racism, but Its Users Can’t Sue to Prompt Fairness " SAN FRANCISCO — Brian Che...